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Welcome to my webpage.  I am a senior economist at the research department of the National Bank of Belgium. I am also an affiliated  associate professor at the department of Finance at Tilburg University.

Since April 2024, I am visiting part-time the ECB, at DGR-FIR as a Lead Economist, primarily in the context of the new ESCB Research Network ChaMP (Challenges for Monetary Policy in a Changing World).  

Twice a year, I organize a workshop of the Empirical Financial Intermediation network. jointly with Mike Marathasian and Klaas Mulier. The aim of the EFI network is to organize small workshops on empirical financial intermediation during which researchers receive ample time to present and receive feedback on their work in a friendly atmosphere. 

I am currently an associate editor at the Journal of Financial Stability. In the past, I served as an associate editor at the Journal of Banking and Finance.

In my empirical research, I examine various aspect of banking, related to :

• the impact of bank business models on bank risk-taking and financial stability

• bank competition and stability

• bank capital structure and regulation

• bank-firm relationships and shock transmission

• lending specialization

• empirical methods to decompose credit supply from credit demand

It is a pleasure to be on the reviewing and selection committee of:

• the European Finance Association 2025

• the Endless Summer Conference 2025

• IBEFA 2025 (Summer meeting) and 2026 (Annual meeting)

• IFABS 2025

• ESCB - reseach cluster 3